John Stezaker: Lost World

Author:   John Stezaker ,  Geo rey Batchen ,  David Campany ,  Robert Leonard
Publisher:   Ridinghouse
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9781909932432


Pages:   86
Publication Date:   01 February 2018
Format:   Paperback
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John Stezaker: Lost World


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British Conceptual artist John Stezaker (b. 1949) is known for his distinctive, often deceptively simple, collages. He has been making art since the 1970s, but achieved prominence relatively recently. In 2011, he had a retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and, in 2012, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, even though he does not take photographs. Stezaker says collage is about 'stuff that has lost its immediate relationship with the world' and involves 'a yearning for a lost world'. A collector, he works from an archive of out-of-date images--mostly old film stills, vintage actor head shots, and antique postcards. These images come in standard sizes and are highly conventionalised--all variations on themes. Art critic David Campany says, Stezaker 'is drawn to that very slim space between convention and idiosyncrasy.' In addition to collages, Lost World includes poignant found-object-sculptures: a selection of antique mannequin hands, offering a repertoire of gestures. There's also a film, Crowd, presenting hundreds of film stills of crowd scenes, each for one frame only, in a bewildering blur.

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Author:   John Stezaker ,  Geo rey Batchen ,  David Campany ,  Robert Leonard
Publisher:   Ridinghouse
Imprint:   Ridinghouse
ISBN:  

9781909932432


ISBN 10:   1909932434
Pages:   86
Publication Date:   01 February 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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